Sumit Guha, “Wrongs and Rights in the Maratha Country: Antiquity, Custom and Power in Eighteenth-Century India”, in Michael Anderson and Sumit Guha (eds), Changing Conceptions of Law and Justice in South Asia. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 14-29 Link found here

Stewart Gordon, ‘Scarf and sword: Thugs, Marauders, and State-Formation. in Eighteenth Century Malwa’, The Indian Economic and Social History Review , 4, no 6 (1969), pp.403-429 Link found here

Radhika Singha, A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 168-228

Sanjay Nigam, "Disciplining and Policing the `Criminals by Birth' Part 2: The Development of the Disciplinary System, 1871-1900", The Indian Economic and Social History Review, 2 (1990), pp. 257-287 Link found here

Class 8:

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books, New York, 1995, pp. 231-256 Link found here

John Harriss, “Antinomies of Empowerment: Observations on Civil Society, Politics and Urban Governance in India”, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 42, Number 26, June 30 - July 06, 2007, pp. 716-2724 Link found here

Class 18: Identity and Citizenship

Susie Tharu and Tejaswini Niranjana, “Problems for a Contemporary Theory of Gender”, in Shahid Amin and Dipesh Chakrabarty (eds.), Subaltern Studies IX: Writings on South Asian History and Society, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 232-260 Link found here

Vivek Dhareshwar and R. Srivatsan, “Rowdy Sheeters: An essay on Subalternity and Politics”, Subaltern Studies IX: Writings on South Asian History and Society, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 201-231 Link found here